Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon, right, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, center, and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev seen before a CIS summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011. ... more

Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon, right, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, center, and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev seen before a CIS summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011. The heads of state from the Commonwealth of Independent States, a loose association of ex-Soviet republics, ended the summit in the capital of Tajikistan by signing a declaration calling for peaceful conflict-resolution among member states and the creation of a free trade zone. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press Service) less